Hayden Finch

There is some truth to that, that a certain group of people does work better under pressure.

But by and large, almost everyone who believes that to be true about themselves is wrong.

So that is a false assumption that a lot of us are making about ourselves.

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In general, probably.

We know that humans are inclined towards procrastination and we have some evidence from researching other animals that they also are inclined towards procrastination.

So there is something sort of like biologically driven about procrastination.

By that we're talking about all of the things that influence that as a behavior.

So we think of procrastination as a behavior, or in this case, like the absence of behavior.

And when we're talking about psychology, we're not only talking about behavior, but we're also talking about the thoughts and feelings and even life experiences that influence that behavior.

So all of that is part of the psychology of procrastination.

That's definitely part of it, right?

Like the language that we use to talk to ourselves about our behavior, it matters.

It influences the behavior that ultimately we perform.

And also it's not the whole story.

You're right on that, that those are excuses or reasons that we give to justify a particular action or inaction, but it's not the complete story for sure.

Right.

Well, there's there's the emotional side of it, which my perspective is that there's this emotional side to it that we neglect.

We think of, again, procrastination as a behavior, but we neglect this emotional side.